Annual meetings for apartment owners do not typically lend themselves to compelling storytelling, but Shakespeare might not have written a more tragicomic tale than my building’s most recent strata meeting. It was the largest ever turnout for our AGM. They tend to be small, sleepy affairs. But this time, about 50 residents filed in, drawn by an opportunity to vote on a bylaw amendment that would finally end the ban on drying laundry on balconies and allow us to put out a portable clothes rack.

Nature’s dryer.Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto

After some procedural matters, it was time for the results. And it was a nailbiter. As with any........

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